Advancing Media Production Research: IAMCR pre-conference

Initiated and Co-sponsored by IAMCR's Media Production Analysis Working Group, this IAMCR pre-conference / ICA post-conference is intended to address the issues raised in the process of researching within media, journalistic, and cultural organisations, primarily from the anthropological and sociological traditions of long-term exposure to production cultures through ethnographic observation or participant observation.

About the Conference

• Venue and date: University of Leeds - Monday, 24 June, 2013
• International Communication Association (ICA) Post-conference
• International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Pre-conference

Initiated and Co-sponsored by the IAMCR Media Production Analysis Working Group with:

• ICA Co-sponsor: Journalism Studies Section
• ECREA Co-sponsor: Media Industries and Cultural Production Working Group

Expected speakers and participants include:
    Georgina Born (Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC)
    David Ryfe (Can Journalism Survive? An inside look at American Newsrooms)
    Philip Schlesinger (Putting ‘Reality’ Together)
    David Hesmondhalgh (The Cultural Industries)

For more information, visit the conference page at http://www.pvac.leeds.ac.uk/productionresearch/